Sources for Journalists
Covering Baker University

The following Baker University faculty and staff members are available as sources for the media. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , director of public relations, at 785.594.8330 to arrange an interview:

Alumni Communications & Alumni Events

Doug Barth, Director of Alumni & Corporate Relations

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Office phone: 785.594.4799
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: alumni engagement

Art

Inge G. Balch, Professor of Art,
Curator of the International Cone Box Show

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Office phone: 785.594.4537
Home phone: 785.594.2685
Best time to be contacted: daytime hours in office and evenings at home
Areas of expertise: ceramics, sculpture, design foundation, gallery management

Behavioral Science

Rand Ziegler, Vice President & Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences 

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Office phone number: 785.594.8312
Best time to be reached: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: behavioral science (research design and statistics), institutional research, liberal education, curriculum design and development, faculty development

Business

Lowell Jacobsen, PhD, Elizabeth Harvey Rhodes Professor of International Business

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Office phone: 785.594.4516
Best time to be contacted: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Areas of expertise: global economy, business strategy, financial investments

Career Development

Susan Wade, Director of Career Services

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Office phone: 785.594.8435
Areas of expertise: career services, graduate survey, career choices and employment for students and alumni

Charitable Foundation Development & Community Partnerships

Harold Frye, Ed.D., Associate Professor & Chair, Graduate School of Education

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Office phone: 913.344.1220
Best time to be reached: weekdays
Areas of expertise: clinical supervision and teacher evaluation, school and community partnerships, charitable foundation development

Computer Crime

Tim Buzzell, Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of History, Culture & Society

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Office phone: 785.594.4598
Best time to be reached: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Areas of expertise: computer crime and deviance (types, causes, prosecution of), politics and religion, sociology of holidays and ritual

Crisis Response

The Rev. Dr. Ira DeSpain, Minister to Baker University

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Office phone: 785.594.4553
Cell number: 785.418.0438
Best time to be contacted: anytime
Areas of expertise: religion, campus crises

Critical Thinking

Donald Hatcher, Professor of Philosophy

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Office phone: 785.594.8486
Home number: 785.843.7358
Best time to be reached: mornings at home, afternoons at Baker University
Areas of expertise: criticaI thinking pedagogy, critical thinking and writing, critical thinking assessment

Economics

Alan Grant, Associate Professor of Economics

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Office phone number: 785.594.8498
Best time to be reached: mornings
Areas of expertise: lottery finance, inflation forecasting

Education

Carolyn R. Doolittle, Assistant Professor

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Office phone number: 785.594.4593
Best time to be reached: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Areas of expertise: elementary education, curriculum and instruction, assessment, reading and language arts

Bill Neuenswander, Ed.D, Assistant Dean for Assessment

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Office phone: 785.594.4518
Best time to be reached: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Areas of expertise: educational leadership and assessment

Amy Wintermantel, Assistant Professor of Education

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Office phone: 785.594.4583
Additional phone number: 785.594.3337
Best time to be reached: afternoons Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Areas of expertise: special education

Karla Wiscombe, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate School of Education

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Office phone: 785.594.8368
Areas of expertise: Kansas State Board of Education licensure in elementary K-9, social studies 7-9, building administrator K-9

Enrollment Management

Kevin Kropf, Director of Enrollment Management

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Office phone: 785.594.8327
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: college admission, campus visits

Environment

Roger L. Boyd, Director of Natural Areas

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Office phone: 785.594.3172
Cell: 785.424.0595
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: wetlands, wetlands restoration, birds, trees, prairie, wildflowers

Financial & White Collar Crime

Martha Harris, Professor of Business and Economics

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Office phone number: 785.594.8338
Best time to be reached: mornings
Areas of expertise: financial crime, white collar crime, fraud

Fundraising

Amy J. Piersol, Director of Major Gifts

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Office phone: 785.594.7866
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: fundraising

Health Care

Kathleen L. Harr, Vice President and Dean of the School of Nursing

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Office phone number: 785.354.5853
Best time to be reached: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Areas of expertise: nursing education, nursing workforce development, nursing shortage

Cindy Light, Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Office phone number: 785.354.5877
Areas of expertise: emergency and critical care nursing

Kay Osinski, MS, RN, CMSRN, CNE, Assistant Professor

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Phone: 785.354.5867
Best time to be contacted: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: medical-surgical nursing, nursing education, legal issues in nursing

Libby Rosen PhD, RN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing

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Phone numbers: 785.354.5859, 785.845.3731
Best time to be contacted: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: maternal and child nursing, lactation, leadership

Ruth Sarna, RN, Director of Student Health Services

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Office phone: 785.594.8409
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: college health services

History

Kay Bradt, Director of Library Services

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Blog: BULB—Baker University Library Blog
Office phone: 785.594.8390
Home phone: 785.594.8414
Best time to be contacted: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Areas of expertise: libraries and library activity in Kansas, history of the printing of the Bible

Jenny McCollough, Director of Archives and Museum

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Office phone: 785.594.8380
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Areas of expertise: Baker University history, archives

John D. Richards, Assistant Professor of History

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Office phone: 785.594.8391
Best time to be reached: 3-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: ancient, medieval, European and world history; Latin and ancient Greek languages

Human Resources

Connie Deel, Director of Human Resources

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Office phone: 785.594.8362
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Areas of expertise: human resources

International Student Services

Kathy L. Wilson, Academic Success Coordinator

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Office phone: 785.594.8352
Best time to be reached: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: ADA access services, study abroad, international student services, advising information, tutor information

Literature

Patricia E. Bandré, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

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Office phone: 913.344.1223
Additional number: 785.594.3668
Best time to be reached: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: children’s and young adult literature

Media

W. Joe Watson, Assistant Professor of Mass Media

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Office phone number: 785.594.7855
Best time to be reached: daytime and early evenings
Areas of expertise: electronic media, broadcasting, mass media, effects of mass media on society, role media plays in our lives, ways in which media shape society and culture, ways in which individuals use mass media

Multicultural Affairs

Silas Dulan III, Director of Multicultural Affairs

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Office phone: 785.594.8364
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: multicultural affairs

Music

William Funk, Music Adjunct

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Office phone: 785.727.0516
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Areas of expertise: trumpet, composition

Ray James, Director of Bands, Professor of Instrumental Music Education and Low Brass Studies

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Office phone: 785.594.4579
Best time to be contacted: morning and late afternoon
Areas of expertise: band, instrumental music education, conducting, jazz history, music business and technology, low brass (trombone, euphonium, and tuba) studies

J.D. Parr, Professor of Music

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Office phone number: 785.594.4507
Best time to be contacted: 10 a.m.-noon Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Areas of expertise: jazz history, jazz in Kansas City and nearby areas, band music, instrumental classical music performance practices

Matthew Potterton, Director of Choral Activities

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Office phone: 785.594.4504
Best time to be contacted: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Areas of expertise: choral and vocal music

Religion

George Wiley, Osborne Professor of Religion

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Office phone: 785.594.8476
Home phone number: 785.594.3361
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: Christianity, world religions

Spanish Culture

Sandra J. Schumm, Professor of Spanish

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Office phone: 785.594.4524
Best time to be reached: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Areas of expertise: Spanish narrative (especially 20th and 21st century Spanish literature by women), Spanish culture, composition in Spanish

Sports Medicine

Lynn Bott, Director of Sports Medicine & Assistant Professor

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Office phone: 785.594.8424
Cell number: 785.979.4882
Best time to be contacted: 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday.
Areas of expertise: athletic training, sports medicine, kinesiology, therapeutic exercise

Student Leadership

Brett Bruner, Director of Student Life

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Follow him on Twitter: @brettbruner
Office phone: 785.594.8304
Best time to be contacted: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Areas of expertise: new-student orientation and transition programs, community engagement and volunteer services, student leadership development, student activities programming

Theater Production

Tom Heiman, Associate Professor of Theatre & Scenography

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Office phone number: 785.594.4513
Best time to be reached: 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday and Thursday, 9-11 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Areas of expertise: theatrical lighting, special effects, painting, set construction

Youth Advocacy

Carrie Coward Bucher, Professor of Liberal Studies, Coordinator of Academic Achievement

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Office phone: 785.594.4536
Areas of expertise: resources for homeless youth, developmental higher education